Darfur
were related to those of the Nile Valley
(including EGYPT), whose caravans probably
reached the region by 2500 B.C.E. According
to tradition, the regions first rulers were
the Daju. By around 900 C.E., Christianity
had spread to the area; by the thirteenth
century, however, the region had fallen
under the domination of the powerful Islamic
empire of Kanem-Bornu to the west, and the
TUNJUR replaced the Daju as the ruling elite
of the region.
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